Monthly Archives: February 2008

A virtual desktop aimed at users who access the web via cybercafes is attracting interest from organisations set up to bridge the digital divide Offered by Paris start-up Jooce, it is being billed as a way of personalising any computer.

Apple, Research In Motion and ZTE Corp joined the ranks of the world’s 10 largest mobile phone makers in 2007, underlining how technology advances and emerging markets are producing a new cast of winners and losers in the industry.

Google today plans to introduce a service for creating Web sites that help colleagues share information with each other or people outside their organisations, in a further move into Microsoft’s core turf.

A Microsoft executive told MPs today that forcing software companies to install internet content filtering technology with high-security settings as standard to all computers would send the UK back to the “dark ages”.

3BILL has announced that it has acquired a UK Social Network Profile Heaven for an undisclosed sum. Profile Heaven is a fairly standard social network aimed at teen – student demographics (15-24 years old); it was brought in the spotlight in 2006 when it

Electronic Arts on Monday warned rival video game publisher Take-Two that “time was of the essence” and there was no certainty any other buyer would emerge to top its $2bn takeover offer for the owner of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

British business has been urged to “hold its marketing nerve,” and budgets, amid growing concern that advertising spending will be cut in an economic downturn. The call came on Monday from Superbrands, a brand analysis organisation, as it disclosed th

The so-called landrush for the latest domain name suffix – .asia – has begun. DotAsia, the organisation overseeing the registration, is expecting huge demand for the first domain name extension for the Asia Pacific region. But some in the industry are con

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, is weighing up an expansion in Europe. The group, which opens its European, Middle Eastern and African headquarters in London on Thursday, aims to sell to Chinese users overseas and is considering

The hit film Transformers will be available to rent via the games console Xbox 360 this week as Paramount became the second Hollywood film studio to sign a distribution deal. At least 20 Paramount films, including Primal Fear and Naked Gun 33 & 1/3, were

Rules covering broadband firms could soon be scrapped in some UK regions. The European Commission has given permission for the regulations to lapse following a review of competition among broadband wholesalers in the UK.

Mobile-phone operator Vodafone Group named one of Microsoft’s top executives to head up its newly created Internet-services division. Pieter Knook will join Vodafone in March as director of Internet services.